Sounds and Actions
A useful demonstration on YouTube of the phonics sounds and actions from a teacher using the Jolly Phonics scheme.
Storyteller Videos
Watch professional storytellers read a selection of the Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales books. The videos are from Oxford Owl.
Starfall - Learn to Read
A good learning to read site. There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.
Phonics Bloom
Phonics Bloom create interactive online phonics games to help teach children the relationship between letters and sounds and develop the skills needed to read and write.
Num Tanga Junior
Match the pairs which could be numerals, numbers as words, ten frames, base ten or fingers on hands. There are different levels the highest of which goes up to 20.
Apple Picking
A missing numbers game which focuses on numbers from 0 to 20. Children are presented with a series of numbers and have to select the apple to find the missing number.
Ways to Make
Essentially a number bonds to 10 site the children need to find how many different ways they can put teddies in two houses. The site works well on an interactive whiteboard.
Find Beginning Letters with Words and Pictures
Di is an artist who paints phrases. Help her paint three pictures by matching words that begin with the same two consonants. Select two words that begin with the same letter pattern, such as 'sheep' and 'shoe'.
Oh No, George!
Read along with this amusing story of George the dog who wants to be good but finds it very difficult.
Grover's Winter Games
This game is probably suitable more for use at home than at school. It has three parts. The first has number to 15 number recognition activities, the second has shape patterns to complete and the third tests a child's ability to follow instructions.
